My ongoing theme is always the truth, as I see it, and the exposure of lies, deception and manipulation wherever they exist. I remain firmly convinced that the world can no longer resist its innate urge to unite and co-operate with one another and we are very close to the point where war can no longer be an option if this transformation is to occur. Website: allenroland.com Email: allen@allenroland.com

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Fourteen teens have been killed by the police since
Michael Brown was gunned down on August 9th and young African Americans are
killed by cops 4.5 times more often than people of other races and ages.We are obviously watching ourpolice shift their mission from saving lives to
prosecuting drug wars, social injustice and an increasingly visible militarized
police state: Allen L Roland, Ph.D

"As long as justice is postponed we always stand on the
verge of these darker nights of social disruption."
Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech on March 14, 1968, just three weeks before
he was assassinated.

SWAT teams were created in the
1960s to combat hostage-takings, sniper shootings, and violent unrest. But
today they're often used in more controversial police work and with an
increased use of military weapons. As Thom Hartmann correctly states ~ "America's
police forces have become like occupied armies, hyper-militarized for the
benefit of our nation's military industrial complex. All across our country,
local cops are kicking in doors, SWAT teams are carrying weapons of war, and
warrants are becoming things of the past."

Ferguson
matters because we are finally witnessing the social
injustice of our current War on Drugs and growing militarized police state ~ here
are the facts:Black
people are arrested and incarcerated six times more often than whites.

An
African-American male is sentenced to a prison term that is, on average, 20
to 50 times longer than a white male convicted of the same drug crime.

More
than 2.3 million men in America are in prison, approximately half of
them for drug-related crimes. Seventy percent of all men imprisoned are
black or Hispanic. Thirty years ago, before the "War on
Drugs" was launched, there were only 300,000 people in the American
prison system.

There
are 2.7 million children whose fathers or mothers are in prison, on
probation, or on parole.

In
many urban areas 80 percent of young men have prison records. These
convictions will remain on their records permanently, limiting their
voting rights and their ability to find employment. Currently, in all but
two states, citizens with felony convictions are permanently or
temporarily prohibited from voting. The United States is the only
country that permits permanent disenfranchisement of felons even after
completion of their sentences.

The
United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, higher
than Russia, China, and Iran.

White
households have six times the wealth of African-American households.

Ferguson finally
matters because
the rules are really different for blacks seeking justice and no one understood
this better than Martin Luther King Jr whose words in his 1968 speech (The
Other America) speaks to all Americans, regardless of their race; "It is not enough for me to stand before you
tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that
without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions
that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause
individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in
violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the
language of the unheard."

We have now reached
the stage in our Republic where the unheard must be heard.

Allen
is also a lecturer and writerwho shares a weekly political and social commentary on hisweb logand websiteallenroland.com. He is also a featured columnist on Veterans
Today and guest
hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK onwww.conscioustalk.net

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

A
size comparison of the Earth and our neighboring planets with the Sun in our
solar star system.

Happy Thanksgiving and a joyful reminder that we are but a tiny
spec of sand in the known universe but by surrendering to a Unified
Fieldof love and soul consciousness, that exists
beyond time and space as well as deepest within ourselves, we will begin to see
through different eyes and realize we are all one and most certainly not alone
as well as the truth of these words by William Blake ~ We are put on Earth a
little space to bear the beams of love: Allen L Roland. Ph.D

The
basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy field of
love and soul consciousness ( the Unified
Field
) which lies not only beyond time and space but also beneath our deepest
fears and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite: Allen L
Roland, Ph.D

Carl Sagan once mused, there are more stars
in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth:

Now
this is where we live within our own Milky Way Galaxy ~

But this is all we will ever see ~

We
are in essence mere inhabitants of planet Earth in a solar system which is part
of a Milky Way galaxy that is part of thousands and
thousands of galaxies, each containing millions of stars, each with their own
planets ~ which is part of a Solar Interstellar neighborhood ~ which is part of
a local Galactic Group ~ which is part of the Virgo Super cluster ~ which is
part of the Local Super clusters ~ which is part of the Observable Universe.

As Dave Stopera, Buzz
feed correctly writes"Just a tiny
little ant in a giant jar " ~but I would add a tiny ant with a heart and soul
that is capability of loving so deeply that it cannot only feel and glimpse the
universal oneness (through love) within this incomprehensible universe but also see its part in this loving
plan in action.See Stopera's mindboggling article
which features 26 pictures which just may make you re-evaluate your own
existence ~ http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-universe-is-scary

But let’s think bigger as we get smaller. In JUST this
minutesection of the skytaken by the Hubble telescope, there are
thousands and thousands of galaxies, each containing millions of stars, each
with their own planets ~ and many most
certainly containing life forms.

I
distinctly remember as a very young child, since I'm a twin and surrendered
during my birth trauma, a vague, scary and almost overwhelming prenatal feeling
of being part of something so vast and incomprehensible that I felt absolutely
miniscule and tiny beyond description. Now I realize, through eyes that have
been opened through love and service, that it was evidence of my original fetal
or prenatal omniscience ~ a knowledge of events which seem to transcend the
sensory and mental capacities of the fetus.

This
fetal consciousness has most certainly been validated through the work of Dr
William Emerson of Petaluma (also a twin) in his evaluation of the memory and
consciousness capacities of the prenate through regressions of infants from age
two to four in order to determine whether they qualified as experiences of
prenatal higher consciousness. The results of the regressions revealed that
most of the children had two or the four criteria of higher consciousness and
many had three out of four while in utero.

There
can be little doubt that we, as human beings on this tiny miniscule planet in
this vast known universe, are the product of an evolution of love fueled by the
urge to unite ~ from single cell to multi-cell ~ and by the third trimester we
have reached a place of such complexity consciousness that we are in a joyful
and knowing state of soul consciousness within a Unified Field of love and soul
consciousness ~ whose principle property is the urge to unite.

As
such, we are all innately emissaries of love on a mission to a planet that is
in the process of being born into a universal loving plan. Our task, quite
simply, is to fully love and escape our false dark cocoon of ego consciousness
as well as claim our authentic role within a loving plan from a place of
celebration and service.

So happy thanksgiving and a joyful reminder that the only way
we can connect with this immense and unfathomable universe is by surrendering
to love and in the process realize that we are most probably not alone~ a theory that could well become fact during
this decade.

However, I have always felt that planet Earth is the rogue
planet of this solar interstellar neighborhood and until we surrender to love
and go beyond our need to control and dominate each other and instead become
part of our innate evolutionary need for social cooperation and altruism ~ we
may remain alone and notcontacted by other
life forms in our solar neighborhood who rightfully see us as dangerous and
ungrounded in a universal loving plan.

Jung's
theory of the collective unconscious fit within and support my model of a Unified Field of Love which is a universal
and psychic energy field of love and soul consciousness that unites and
connects all living beings ~ or as Emerson wrote "The thread of all
sustaining beauty that runs through all and doth all unite".We resist this connection at our
individual and collective peril.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience ~ we
are spiritual beings having a human experience: Teilhard de Chardin

Allen
is also a lecturer and writerwho shares a weekly political and social commentary on hisweb logand websiteallenroland.com. He is also a featured columnist on Veterans
Today and guest
hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK onwww.conscioustalk.net

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Prolonged drought has also caused a dramatic drop in Lake
Powell's water level. Lake Powell is another Southwestern reservoir that
supplies water to millions of homes in Arizona and Utah. These NASA images show
the northern part of the lake, which is actually a deep, narrow, meandering
reservoir that extends from Arizona upstream into southern Utah. The left
image, from 1999, shows water levels near full capacity. The image on the right,
taken in May 2014, shows the lake has dropped to 42 percent of capacity.

The human spirit needs places where
nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.~ Author Unknown

Think of the Earth as a 45 year old female body (Gaia - Greek
Goddess of Earth) with veins filled with life sustaining water (instead of
blood) and you will get the big picture of the slow but sure effects of Climate
Change as well as the end result of human progress at all costs. We can no
longer ignore our inter-relationship and inter-dependence with Nature ~ for in
the end, Nature will survive with or without us: Allen L Roland. Ph.D

In
September of 2014, Justin Gillis (NT Times)reported a significant rise
in 2013 greenhouse gas emissions ~ "Global emissions of greenhouse gases jumped 2.3 percent in 2013 to record
levels, scientists reported Sunday, in the latest indication that the world
remains far off track in its efforts to control global warming… In a separate report in early September, the World
Meteorological Organization said the level of carbon dioxide in the air in 2013
was 42 percent above the level that prevailed before the Industrial Revolution.

Other important greenhouse gases
have gone up as well, with methane increasing 153 percent from the
preindustrial level and nitrous oxide by 21 percent. The increase of these
and other gases from human activity has caused the planet to warm by about 1.5
degrees Fahrenheit since the preindustrial era, which is causing land ice to
melt all over the world. The oceans are rising at what appears to be an
accelerating pace, and heat waves and torrential rains are
intensifying." See article ~ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/science/earth/scientists-report-global-rise-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html?emc=eta1

Abstract art at Burning Man? Nope,
these are empty boat slips protruding from an abandoned dock at Nevada's Lake
Mead National Recreation Area. Lake Mead is North America's largest man-made
reservoir, storing water for millions of people across seven states. Well, it
used to anyway.

Firefighters from Stockton, Calif.,
put out flames off of Hidden Valley Rd. while fighting a wildfire, Friday, May
3, 2013 in Hidden Valley, Calif.

A dust storm called a haboob ~ which
is Arabic for "violent wind" ~ slams Phoenix, Arizona.

Perhaps the only way we can truly
grasp the significance of Climate Change is to watch this 35 minute documentary
film which reinforces a fact that many of us already know but few practice ~ that
we are all deeply connected and inter- dependent with Nature, that we can no
longer manipulate or bend nature into service to mankind and we can no longer
practice human progress at all costs.

The
film compares the Earth to a 45 year old female (Gaia)
where in the first 10 minutes Teilhard's law of complexity/Consciousness rules
as the universal urge to unite propels this living being from single cell to
multicellular organisms to amphibians and finally human beings and where she isnow at age 45(4.5
Billion years)

One
minute ago the Industrial Revolution began and the last 60 seconds summarizes
our rapid ascent to our current extremely perilous human situation where we can
no longer bend nature to our will. Must see 35 minute Video ~ http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all-things-are-connected/

"We
shall continue to have a worsening ecological crisis until we reject the
Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve
man." Lynn
White Jr (Author of The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis)

Allen
is also a lecturer and writerwho shares a weekly political and social commentary on hisweb logand websiteallenroland.com. He is also a featured columnist on Veterans
Today and guest
hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK onwww.conscioustalk.net

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Nestled in the San Francisco East Bay hills and Valleys is the
City of Oakley ~ a city that is celebrating its 15th year of incorporation as
well as local control of its community's destiny. That includes leasing its
Seniors the old city Firehouse and then encouraging them to adopt the newly
formed Veterans of Oakley and supporting them to join the Seniors in service to
each other as well as the community: Allen L Roland, Ph.D

Click on all photos to enlarge

Veterans
of Oakley president Randy Smith celebrates with fellow veteran Clint Rehak
(Iraq Vet) as they move into and share the Old Oakley Firehouse site with the
Oakley Senior Citizens.

Joseph
Camacho District Representative from California Senator Mark DeSaulnier's
office, Randy Smith, President
Veterans of Oakley, Kevin Romick, City of Oakley
Council member, Shirley Darling President of Oakley Senior Citizens and
Jennifer Quallick, Field Representative from Contra Costa County Supervisor
Mary Piepho's office greeting all the veterans and thanking them for their
service to our country.

The
driving force of the wedding of these two precious resources was and continues
to be Shirley Darling, President of the Oakley Senior Citizensand Randy Smith, U.S Army Veteran and President
of Veterans of Oakley.

But
Veterans of Oakley is not just dedicated to serving its own veterans but
is alsodedicated to serving the community
as well as other Veteran organizations.

Veterans
of Oakley members Emil Ramirez, US Army and Tim Barton, USMC, volunteering andserving coffee and donuts as well as good will to
veterans at the Martinez Vets Clinic.

And
every Monday morning at 930 AMVeterans of
Oakley share coffee together at the Local Black Bear diner (where this whole
idea was hatched several months ago) ~
whose proud Manager Jimmy Damico is shown hereon
the left with a few of these dedicated Veterans, which includes myself.

Veterans
and seniors celebrate dinner together within the old Oakley firehouse

But
the heart and soul of this story is Seniors and Veterans working together to
make the Oakley community stronger and in the process serving as a model for
other communities to emulate their success and dedication to service.

Being
in Service is a way of life for the Veterans of Oakley but now it's serviceto their community where it once was theircountry.The
nationwide average age of a veteran is 64 years old so this marriage has
obvious mutual benefits to both veterans and seniors ~ whose military family
ties are both many and varied as to awar
and service. This is a win, win for both organizations with the full and
enthusiastic blessings of the city of Oakley.

"I'm
delighted to work with the Veterans and make a home for both of us"Shirley Darling,
President of Oakley Senior Citizens

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Allen
is also a lecturer and writerwho shares a weekly political and social commentary on hisweb logand websiteallenroland.com. He is also a featured columnist on Veterans
Today and guest
hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK onwww.conscioustalk.net

order
to protect the fleet, our mission or our homeland and those years
are forever gone.

But
those years are also filled with memories

Memories
of camaraderie,

Memories
of close friendships,

Memories
of shared bonding in battle, in carrier operations or

under
attack.

Many
of us have been to the dark side and never returned to

the
light.

Many
of us cannot forget the horror of war and the memories still haunt
us.

Each
of us, as Veterans, are proud we served our country and we
welcome the respect and care we receive at our VA clinics and know,
at the deepest level, that we are all brothers and sisters ~ joined by
a common bond of sacrifice and service.

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About Me

I'm a disabled active duty Navy veteran who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, survived a dysfunctional family, pursued and lived my dreams, including being a Navy carrier fighter pilot. I found myself by fully opening my heart, wrote three books, sired four children and I'm still living my ultimate dream by making a difference from a place of celebration and service. My 1998 PhD dissertation on the UNIFIED FIELD was chosen by Noetic Science and Common Boundary as one of the top three world finalists on combining psychology and spirituality. I retired from my private practice in 2014, because of my service connected asbestosis related lung disease, and live in Antioch, California but still remain involved as a featured columnist on Veterans Today and heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor ~ particularly with combat veterans with PTSD as well as others with PTHD ( Post Traumatic Heart Disorder).